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Equilibrium Driven by Discounted Dividend Volatility

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  • Jaksa CVITANIC

    (Caltech, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences)

  • Semyon MALAMUD

    (EPF Lausanne and Swiss Finance Institute)

Abstract

We derive representations for the stock price drift and volatility in the equilibrium of agents with arbitrary, heterogeneous utility functions and with the aggregate dividend following an arbitrary Markov diffusion. We introduce a new, intrinsic characteristic of the aggregate dividend process that we call the ”rate of discounting volatility” and show that, in equilibrium, the size of market price of risk is determined by the market price of discounted dividend volatility (DDV), discounted at that rate, and multiplied by the aggregate risk aversion. The stock price volatility is equal to the market price of DDV plus a volatility risk premium. In particular, stock price volatility is larger than the dividend volatility if the aggregate risk aversion is decreasing, dividend volatility is countercylical and the rate of discounting volatility is procyclical. We also obtain a representation for the optimal portfolios. Under the above cyclicality conditions, we show that the non-myopic (hedging) component of an agent’s portfolio is positive (negative) if the product of agent’s prudence and risk tolerance is below (above) two, and the sign is reversed for the reversed cyclicality conditions.

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  • Jaksa CVITANIC & Semyon MALAMUD, 2009. "Equilibrium Driven by Discounted Dividend Volatility," Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper Series 09-34, Swiss Finance Institute.
  • Handle: RePEc:chf:rpseri:rp0934
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    Cited by:

    1. Harjoat S. Bhamra & Raman Uppal, 2014. "Asset Prices with Heterogeneity in Preferences and Beliefs," The Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies, vol. 27(2), pages 519-580.
    2. Georgii Riabov & Aleh Tsyvinski, 2021. "Policy with stochastic hysteresis," Papers 2104.10225, arXiv.org.
    3. Jaksa Cvitanic & Elyès Jouini & Semyon Malamud & Clotilde Napp, 2011. "Financial Markets Equilibrium with Heterogeneous Agents," Review of Finance, European Finance Association, vol. 16(1), pages 285-321.

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    Keywords

    equilibrium; heterogeneous agents; volatility; optimal portfolios;
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    JEL classification:

    • D53 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Financial Markets
    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates

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